Have you got a fishing fiend in the family?

Do you wonder what would make the perfect gift? A Garmin fishfinder could be the answer.

For any fisherman, finding the fish is the biggest hurdle to a good days sport. If you are fishing you want to catch fish, right?

Knowing where to throw your hook is a craft that evokes many a story from the old guys but there is a way to make it easier. A fishfinder is a great piece of kit that actually 'looks' under the water to 'see' the fish, and if you know where they are you should be able to catch more of them.

How does a fishfinder work?

To put it in simple terms a fishfinder works on the same technology that ships use to find submarines or that bats use to get arund without flying into things. Echo location.

Echo location is more popularly known as Sonar. The fishfinder, in this case, emits high frequency sounds which will bounce off of any surface that it hits, the returning signal is interpreted by the fishfinder and a result is given in the form of an image on a screen.

How does it find fish?

By giving the fisherman a view of what is under the water it is like opening a window to the world below the waves.

The Garmin fishfinder is calibrated to interpret the Sonar signals to show fish, the river bed and in addition it will show up any obstacles that may catch out the unwary.

Even for non-fishermen the Garmin will prove invaluable when they are in unknown waters and give them the information to avoid getting grounded or running into sunken obstacles.

Garmin 140 Fishfinder Reviews

Read what buyers have to say:

Steven- "It has great accuracy not only under the boat, but off to the sides. Lastly the option of mounting the transducer to the trolling motor without having to buy an adapter was icing on the cake."

Dean- "Menus were easy to operate and it simply worked very well. Its definitely one of the better budget B&W fish finders ont he market today in my opinion."

TJ- "The Garmin fishfinder is exactly what it says it is...a fish finder"